Checklist: setting up your choir
The most important steps right after creating it: invite members, add songs and appointments, check your settings.
Web + app
Your choir is created. What now? This checklist walks you through the steps that get your choir properly going: bringing people on board, providing material, planning rehearsals and setting the right options. You don't have to do it all at once; work through the points at your own pace.
These steps are aimed at everyone who manages the choir, that is the choir leadership and admins. A few actions (the subscription, for instance) only work in the web app.
The checklist inside cori
You don't have to memorise the first steps: if you are choir leadership or an admin, cori shows you the “Set up your choir” card right on the web dashboard and on the home screen of the app. It walks you through four points (invite your members, add your first song, create your first rehearsal, say hi in the chat) and ticks off every finished step by itself with a green check. A counter such as “2 of 4 done” shows your progress; once all the points are covered, the card reports “Your choir is ready!”. If you hide it, “Checklist hidden” appears briefly with an Undo action, in case you would rather keep it after all.
One detail about the song step: the demo songs cori puts into a new choir don't count; the step stays open until you add a song of your own.
The list here in the article is still worth having, because it goes beyond the four points on the card, for instance with the settings and the trial.
The steps
No singers, no choir. Share your invitation link or QR code so everyone can join and pick their voice along the way. Here's how: Inviting members.
Create the pieces you want to rehearse, from an audio file for example. After that everyone can sing along and practise. See Creating a song from audio. Extra files such as PDFs or recordings go into the Drive.
Put your rehearsals in the calendar, as a recurring appointment for your weekly rhythm too. See Creating appointments.
Take a look at the choir settings. Especially relevant at the start: the default appointment response for attendance and whether members are allowed to share their annotations with their voice.
Your choir starts with a free trial. If you want to carry on afterwards, take out a subscription in good time so nothing gets paused.
You don't have to shoulder everything alone. Make trusted members admins so they can help with managing, songs, appointments and members included. See Making someone an admin and Roles and permissions in the choir.
What's next?
- Bringing people on board: Inviting members
- Planning setlists: Managing setlists
- Reviewing attendance: Attendance overview
- Starting a subscription: Taking out a subscription
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